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> The police are asking you questions to "get to the bottom of it" and they encounter people every day who do think they can lie to get out of a crime;

I don't even think they are all that interested in getting to the truth of the matter, they are mostly concerned with getting an arrest and conviction. If it'll be easier to throw you behind bars than to find and arrest the dangerous person who actually committed the crime they aren't all going to choose more work and risk "officer safety" when they can just take you and call it a day. Especially not if they're already prejudiced against you or you bruised their fragile ego somehow.

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EFreethought 5 days ago | parent [-]

I wonder how much of the state of affairs is due to the "enshitification" of law enforcement. I think a lot of towns/cities require officers to give out a minimum number of citations/tickets per month.

If you are told to care about a number, you will care about a number.

	▲	oivey 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Enshitification would imply they were ever good. Police brutality has been a constant throughout US history, particularly against minorities, among many other things.
	▲	lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Those numbers influence promotions/raises. It is probable that higher-paid cops commit more civil rights violations than lower-paid by virtue of them being more likely by comparison to have undue arrests and convictions on their record (and ~equally likely to encounter actual criminal behavior).